Dr. David E. Sauer of Lubbock, Texas died in a Denver hospital on October 9, 1955 from coronary insufficiency. He was born October 21, 1909 in Madisonville, Ohio and received his bachelor of arts degree from the Ohio Western University in Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati Medical College in 1936 after which he completed his internship and surgical residency in the Youngstown City Hospital.
From 1939 until 1945 Dr. Sauer was chief of the surgical staff at the Kercheval Memorial Clinic in Kingwood, West Virginia. He came to Texas in 1946 and practiced briefly in Raymondville and Hale Center before moving to Kermit in 1947. In 1954, he moved to Lubbock, where he was on the staff of the Methodist Hospital, the West Texas Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital at the time of his death.
Dr. Sauer was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations successively through the county medical societies of Cameron-Willacy, Reeves-Ward-Winkler-Loving-Culberson-Hudspeth, where he was president in 1951, and Lubbock-Crosby counties. He was also a member of the American Academy of General Practice, the Presbyterian church, and Rotary International.
Dr. Sauer married Miss Svea Virginia Burman in Raymondville, Texas, in 1947. He is survived by his wife, one sister, Mrs. Ralph Koehl of Columbus, Ohio; and two brothers, W. Denslow Sauer and George D. Sauer, both of Marietta, Ohio.
++ ++ ++ Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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